Last August, an eBay buyer paid $60,000 for an extremely rare Pokemon card. After almost a year later, the card still hasn't arrived, and nobody knows where it went to.
Pokemon card collector and YouTuber smpratte shared the story (via CNET), as he claims to know the buyer and the seller of the item. According to spratte, the card was sold for $60,000 last year to a buyer outside of the US, and the card was forwarded to a Global Shipping Program center in New York City after the seller posted it domestically.
The card he claimed was lost is a "Trainer No. 3", one of the rarest Pokemon cards in existence, and it was given out to third-place finishes at a "Secret Super Battle" in Japan in 1999. The item was signed for and valued at $50,000 for insurance purposes —the highest figure possible—and was supposed to then be shipped, but no further tracking was recorded. Smpratte guesses that the card got lost at the New York GSP office when someone noted the insured value of the package, but there's no proof that happened.
"Either you have absolute negligence and incompetence of the packages lost, or you have the other side [an] absolute lowlife scumbag who decided to steal this package," smpratte said.
The video instead focuses on warning whoever is in possession of the missing card that selling the card would attract the attention of fans who know what the card is and who legally owns it.
The buyer is offering $1,000 for information that can help track down the extremely rare card's whereabouts. For more details, contact smpratte.
This sounds like a job for Detective Pikachu.
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